Optimize Your BitTorrent Download Speed.Last but not least… Buy a faster connection… Read more on optimizing your BitTorrent Speed. So disable it and get yourself a decent firewall, Kerio or Zone Alarm for example.
Windows Firewall hates P2P and often leads a life of it’s own. If you’re behind a router, make sure you have the ports forwarded or UPnP enabled. It is good to understand that there is no central server from which you download.
However, that doesn't guarantee speedy transfers. Good clients allow you to do this, just choose anything you like. If you get green smileys as torrents' 'Health', then you know that your basic network settings are ok. So, you should change these to another range. BitTorrent accounts for a lot of the total internet traffic (1/3), so isp’s like to limit the connection offered on the these ports. So, be selective.īy default, BitTorrent uses a port 6881-6999. So 50 seeds and 50 peers is better than 500 seeds and 1000 peers. The more seeds (compared to peers) the better (in general).
Always look for torrents with the best seed/peer ratio. Any number between 50 and 100 is ok (more on this).Ī simple tip, but o so important.
It is supposed to slow down viruses because their spreading strategy is to connect to a high amount of ip numbers, but it also cripples your torrent downloads.Ī nice way to fix this is to download this patch, it allows you to set the maximum allowed connections to any number you want. This seriously hurts your downloading speed because it wont let you connect to a high amount of ip numbers. If you’re on XP sp2, your TCP connections are limited to a maximum of 10. In many circumstances, however, this is not the case. uTorrent even tells you that 0 means that your download will be executed at its maximum potential. As you can see both maximum upload and download speeds are set at 0. Once you know your maximum upload speed, change the max upload (to 80%) speed in your torrent client’s preferences.ĭon’t get me wrong, everyone should share as much as possible, but if your upload rate reached it’s max, your download rate suffers significantly. Bring up the Preferences window by either pressing Ctrl+P or clicking Options -> Preferences. You can check your upload speed over here (never trust your isp). That is because the download speed depends on the number of seeders(who share their data for it to be downloaded) and also peers. Limit your upload speed to approximately 80 percent of your maximum upload rate.